Schedule Fall 2025
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All workshop events take place virtually on Monday, 12:00-13:00 (1:00 pm) Eastern Time (UTC−05:00).
Links to workshop papers will be active as events draw closer here.
Upcoming Workshops
September 15 “Money Talks: Using Cash and Bitcoin to Unpack The Politics of Financial Disintermediation” Ghita Chraibi University of Virginia
September 22 “World Wide Webs: How Migrant Networks and Porous Bureaucracies Forged the Knowledge Economy in the Global South” Jerik Cruz Massachusetts Institute of Technology Moderator: Yujin Zhang
September 29 “The Digital Reconstruction of the U.S. Financial Hegemony: Challenge and Governance of Non-Sovereign Digital Assets” Richard Yifan Zhou Queen Mary University of London Moderator: Greg Brownstein, George Washington University
October 6 “Droughts in the Field, Drug Lords on the Hunt” Enrico Cavallotti European University Institute Moderator: Ryan Pike
October 13 “The Role of Supply Chains in the Politics of Liberalization” Zagreb Mukerjee Yale University Moderator: Richard Yifan Zhou, Queen Mary University of London
October 20 “Deindustrialization, Decarbonization and Climate Investment: A Green Bullet for a Rusty Belt?” Ryan Pike Yale University Moderator: Ezio Jiaqi Wang
October 27 “Elite Political Settlements and Energy Transition in Nigeria” Fikayo Akeredolu Oxford University Moderator: Jerik Cruz
November 3 “Explaining The Racial Heterogeneity of Economic Shocks in the U.S.: A Theory of Racialized Labor Markets” Ezio Jiaqi Wang The University of North Carolina Moderator: Zagreb Mukerjee
November 10 “Who Contests? How Outside Options Shape Contestation in Global Financial Governance” Greg Brownstein George Washington University Moderator: Natalie Playford
November 17 “International Competition and Technological Preferences: Evidence from the United States and China” Yujin Zhang & Ziwen (Gary) Zu Columbia University & UCSD Moderator: Ghita Chraibi
November 24 “Extreme Weather Events, Economic Inequality, and Electoral Behaviour: Shifts in Political Allegiance in Costa Rica (2002–2022)” Alvaro ZUNIGA-CORDERO University of Namur & World Inequality Lab (PSE) Moderator: Enrico Cavallotti
December 1 “Talking about democracy without naming it: The case of the WTO” Noah Wheatley World Trade Institute, University of Bern Moderator: Fikayo Akeredolu
December 8 “Clause and Effect: Mapping Gender-Clause Enforcement in Multilateral Development Bank Loans (2000 - 2025)” Natalie Playford University of Toronto